when feinstein was mayor of s.f. she had shanhai chain to be the sister city of san fransico. those who voted for nafta and gaft, sent millions of our jobs over seas where feinstein's husband has businesses and part ownership in others. feinstein voted to give grants to companies to set up their companies in china. and if china nationalizes and takes over those companies she will reimburse those losses to 100%. the ex-mayor of san fransico, willie brown, dianne feinstein and her husband tried to trade was worthless land to the blm for a closed military base land that has gold deposits on it, and tried to make an even trade on the qt

The Tree
I suggest you read all the posts before you comment.
I said a majority of Bechtel's contributions went
to Reeps, JB said not so and I offered proof of
my statement. He cited a stat that is clearly untrue. He either did it on purpose or did it without ckecking his facts.
You are rude crude and not a part of any civil
conversation. You are factless and feckless..
and an insult to trees.

To Laria:Typical,typical leftwing response...So Jeff is either malicious or stupid! You self-rightous B...., so what IF it was 41% given to Democrats rather than 59%!! What the Hell is 41% of , eg, $600M?...What the heck is your point? If they had given 41% to Republicans and 59% to Democrats would that have been O.K.? Bechtel is an AMERICAN company!!!! Do you prefer we contract with the FRENCH company? Get a life!!!!

Another fat Iraq reconstruction contract for $680 million was awarded to Bechtel Group, which donated most of its $1.3 million worth of political campaign contributions since 1999 to the Republican Party. Bechtel has close ties to the Bush administration.

Donald Rumsfeld once served as a liaison between Bechtel and the Iraqi government to finesse the building of an oil pipeline. And former Secretary of State George Shultz, a member of the board of directors of Bechtel, is also chairman of the advisory board of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a strongly pro-war organization with influence in the White House.

Bechtel contributed the largest amount of money with some $1.3 million in donations, 41 percent of which went to Democrats and 59 percent to Republicans, according to the center.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/042203_war_contractcontroversy.html

Jeff you either are an outright liar or you completely disregard facts...malicious or stupid your choice

To Jeff Bennion better check your records
your numbers are wrong. A majority of Bechtel donations go to Republicans --check the FPPC records I did. You obviously are getting your information from the Club for Growth
I suppose you think the Timken's give to Democrats as well.
I don't need to hate Bush to disagree with him.
Where are the jobs from the last tax cut. Why didn't he address the fact that Timken is moving plants out of the US --not an issue to be addressed by tax cuts.
Check your facts I have

I don't know about Halliburton's contributions, but despite what Lauria Dalton writes, above, most (53%) of Bectel's contributions go to Democrats, not Republicans. Yet another instance of knee-jerk Bush hatred blinding them to facts.

I have no cause to defend Sen. Feinstein; I find her politics loathsome. But her husband--Richard Blum--is an investment manager, it is his clients that own the shares--only through his fiduciary responsibility as the investment manager that he controls 23.7% of the shares. And yes, he has been on the Board of Directors of URS Corp. since 1975. Only cynics, or anti-capitalists, would condem such a business relationship. If you ban defense contractors from defense-related contracts, who's to perform the work, social workers? (Full disclosure: Blum's firm was a client of mine several years ago--though I never met the man.)

Kinda like her views on "gun control".

I can have mine, but you little people can't have yours!

Ah, Feinstein's idea of a tax cut: her husband's company gets a $3.6bn cut of tax money. Well, I'd oppose that kind of tax "cut"!

That's the trouble: the constitution only has the 27th Amendment to stop elected officials voting money into their pockets - and nothing at all to stop them voting it into their friends' or supporters' pockets!

"This contract fights terrorism and is not directly related to the Iraq unlike other companies which have made huge donations to the
Republican Party....such as Bechtel and of course
Halliburton and wouldn't it be better if some of this money went to the Brits.."

How about the British reconstruction money going to British firms - as it already does - and US money going to US firms - as required by federal law? That sounds much fairer. As for your knocking of Halliburton: there are only two companies in existence which specialize in capping oil-well fires of this sort - and the other company happens to be French, and (according to one of their own staff) not as good at it as Halliburton's subsidiary.

So: on one hand, the Republicans give a contract to the best company for the job, with no direct ties to the Administration, and get ripped apart for it. On the other, a Senator's husband part-owns a company receiving billions in government money, and... nothing?!?

This contract fights terrorism and is not directly related to the Iraq unlike other companies which have made huge donations to the
Republican Party....such as Bechtel and of course
Halliburton and wouldn't it be better if some of this money went to the Brits..

Senator Feinstein has plenty of money in her own right from renting single occupancy rooms to homeless people (paid for by the City of San Francisco)

"We keep what he does and what I do completely separate," Ms. Feinstein said.

I'll bet the bank accounts are separate also.......well, maybe not.

With or without the husband's contract she would be against a tax cut just on principle. The principle that the more money the govt can take from you (me) the more control they have over you (me). The idea that a hardworking single person might be able to keep an additional $40 a pay period instead of giving it to some pork barrel project just twists their little knickers.

Sound like Feinstein already got her tax cut. To hell with the rest of you proles...